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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Photography

Gaming

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Playstation 4. Huge money went into buying discs and digital games.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buy used.

The disk-less "cheaper" PS5 is 100% the more expensive option.

Also, if you buy a new game you'll have the option to sell it on, recovering some of your initial investment.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

3D printing. Purchased a cheap 3D printer to save money printing things instead of buying things. 5 printer print farm later, no idea why I'm doing this to myself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I started gaming back in 90's and here it was just buy a game and you got i all. Then I got to pc gaming and watercooling, in the 00-10, And then something happend in these Decades becous what I used to pay fore a full pc with high end components and watercooling is the damn price fore the RAM.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For me it's photography. I originally bought a camera and lens second hand. Now over the past two years its become rather a lot of money. I bought a Nikon Z8 last month and it was definitely worth the money.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hunting. When I was younger, poorer man I used a hand me down lever action rifle and a $5 orange vest to fill my freezer with cheap venison that I would butcher myself. for less than $100 in licenses, ammo and packaging material I could put 3 or 4 deer in the freezer in 1 weekend.

Now, I have multiple gun safes full of various guns, all of them to serve "different purposes" like long range, brush gun, restricted weapons hunting areas, slug gun restricted areas, hunting shotguns, competition shot guns. Then there's the hunting gear, knifes, packs, laser range finders, reloading equipment, hunting lease payments, guide fees, out of state application fees.

Last year I shot 1 deer and paid $140 to have someone else butcher it for me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cigars.

It was only supposed to be a few of the affordable ones with basic accessories.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Game collecting

What started out as picking up C64, Atari, and Nintendo games in the 80s and 90s has turned into a collection of thousands of games totalling tens of thousands of dollars...

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

EDC (everyday carry) this can include pen, notebook, knife, phone, fidget, etc. my most expensive piece that is in my current rotation is my fidget clicker in full brass from unquiet hands. that one chunk of metal and magnets cost me $130

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